Cartridge-shell holder



(No Model.)

A. P. MIGEON.

CARTRIDGE SHELL HOLDER. No 366,338. Patented July 12, 1887-.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ACHILLE F. MIGEON, OF TORRINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

CARTRIDGE-SHELL HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,338, dated July 12,1887.

Application filed April 4, 1887. Serial No. 233,576.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AOHILLE F. MIGEoN, of 'Iorrington. in the county ofLitchfield and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in CartridgeShell Holders; and the following is declared tobe a description of the same.

My invention relates to a cartridgeshell holder for sprortsmens use, andsaid holder is adapted to be carried about in the case containing thegun and ammunition, and said holder is employed to hold and support thecartridge-shell while being loaded.

My invention consists of a holder in which there are two or morechannels to hold the cartridge-shells. At the sides of these channelsthere are grooves to receive the flanges of the cartridge-shells at eachside, so that the shells will not drop out of the holder or be capableof tipping sidewise. Running lengthwise of the holder in the bottom ofthe channel are grooves which come beneath the cartridge'primer, andwhen the said holder is filled with spent shells the old primer can bepressed out of the shells into this longitudinal groove to be thrownaway, the holder thus serving the double purpose of supporting theshells while being filled with powder and shot and while the spentprimers are being driven out.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of Fig. 2 is a sectionlongitudinally of the same, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section at the line a;x.

In each of the above figures I have shown some of the cartridge-shellsin position.

The cartridge-holder is made of a base-piece, a, end piece, I), andlongitudinal side pieces, 0 d e, and between these side pieces, 0 d e,are the channelsff, which receive the cartridge shells, the bases of theshells resting upon the upper surface of the basepiece a. At their (Nomodel.)

lower edges the side pieces, 0 d e, are grooved at c to receive theflanges t at the bases of the cartridge-shells i, and the holder is openat one end, so that the cartridge shells can be inserted one at a timeand slipped along, and they cannot drop out or tip sidewise because theflanges of the shells are within the grooves 0, before named. The shellsafter being loaded can be discharged from the open end of the holder, ifdesired. There are grooves at 99 in the top of the base-piece a, at thecenter of the channels f f, and beneath the primers of thecartridge-shells. These channels permit the spent primers to be drivenout of the shells while the shells are in the holders, and said spentprimers slip out at the end of the grooves when the holder is inclined.

The holder is preferably made of wood, but metal or composition may beemployed; and said holder is adapted to being carried in a gun orsportsmans case of usual construction.-

I claim as my invention 1. A cartridge-shell holder composed of thebase-piece a, end piece, b, and longitudinal side pieces, 0 d 6, therebeing grooves in the side pieces to receive the flanges of thecartridge-shells and grooves in the base-piece to receive the spentprimers, substantially as specified.

2. A cartridgeshell holder composed of longitudinal side pieces, an endpiece, and a basepiece, there being a groove in the upper surface of thebase-piece to receive the spent primers and grooves in the side piecesto receive the flanges of the cartridge-shell, substantially asspecified.

Signed by me 26th day of March, A. D. 1887.

ACHILLE F. MIGEON.

\Vitnesses:

GIDEON H. XVnLcI-i, HENRY I. .IAcKsoN.

